Does (x+y)^2 + (x-y)^2 = 170?
1) x^2 + y^2= 85
2) x=y+1
OA: A
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Does (x+y)^2 + (x-y)^2 = 170?
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This is what I did, let me know where I went wrong ... it looks right to me.
First: I reduced the main statement to X^2+Y^2 = 85
Statement 2: x=y+1
I plugged this in to the statement above and got:
-- (y+1)^2+Y^2=85
--> Y^2+2Y+1+Y^2=85
--> 2Y^2+2Y-84=0
--> Y^2+Y-42=0
--> (Y-6)(Y+7)=0
--> Y= 6, -7
From there, I plugged those values of Y back into statement 2: x=y+1
Y=6 --> x=6+1=7
Y=-7 --> x=-7+1=-6
If you plug these values into x^2+Y^2=85, it works for both values of Y.
What did I do wrong?
First: I reduced the main statement to X^2+Y^2 = 85
Statement 2: x=y+1
I plugged this in to the statement above and got:
-- (y+1)^2+Y^2=85
--> Y^2+2Y+1+Y^2=85
--> 2Y^2+2Y-84=0
--> Y^2+Y-42=0
--> (Y-6)(Y+7)=0
--> Y= 6, -7
From there, I plugged those values of Y back into statement 2: x=y+1
Y=6 --> x=6+1=7
Y=-7 --> x=-7+1=-6
If you plug these values into x^2+Y^2=85, it works for both values of Y.
What did I do wrong?
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Plug x=y+1 into (x+y)^2 + (x-y)^2
(y+1+y)^2 + (y+1-y)^2 = (2y+1)^2 + 1
Cannot conclude: (2y+1)^2 + 1=170 -> B insufficient
While (x+y)^2 + (x-y)^2 = x^2 + 2xy + y^2 + x^2 - 2xy + y^2 = 2(x^2+y^2) = 2*85=170 -> A sufficient
(y+1+y)^2 + (y+1-y)^2 = (2y+1)^2 + 1
Cannot conclude: (2y+1)^2 + 1=170 -> B insufficient
While (x+y)^2 + (x-y)^2 = x^2 + 2xy + y^2 + x^2 - 2xy + y^2 = 2(x^2+y^2) = 2*85=170 -> A sufficient
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chipbmk wrote:This is what I did, let me know where I went wrong ... it looks right to me.
First: I reduced the main statement to X^2+Y^2 = 85
Statement 2: x=y+1
I plugged this in to the statement above and got:
-- (y+1)^2+Y^2=85
--> Y^2+2Y+1+Y^2=85
--> 2Y^2+2Y-84=0
--> Y^2+Y-42=0
--> (Y-6)(Y+7)=0
--> Y= 6, -7
From there, I plugged those values of Y back into statement 2: x=y+1
Y=6 --> x=6+1=7
Y=-7 --> x=-7+1=-6
If you plug these values into x^2+Y^2=85, it works for both values of Y.
What did I do wrong?
how did uget this :
First: I reduced the main statement to X^2+Y^2 = 85
this is wrong
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The bolded sentence is what you did wrong.chipbmk wrote:This is what I did, let me know where I went wrong ... it looks right to me.
First: I reduced the main statement to X^2+Y^2 = 85
Statement 2: x=y+1
I plugged this in to the statement above and got:
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What did I do wrong?
There is no "statement", there is only a question.
To show that statement (2) was sufficient, you assumed that the answer to the original question was "yes". Of course if you assume that the answer is "yes", you'll always get a "yes" answer.
The question reduces to "Does x^2 + y^2 = 85?"
If all we know is that x = y +1, i.e. x - y = 1, there's no way to answer the above question.
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mridul_dave wrote:Stuart, If I rephrase the above to: Does X^2+Y^2 = 85?chipbmk wrote:This is what I did, let me know where I went wrong ... it looks right to me.
First: I reduced the main statement to X^2+Y^2 = 85
Statement 2: x=y+1
I plugged this in to the statement above and got:
-- (y+1)^2+Y^2=85
--> Y^2+2Y+1+Y^2=85
--> 2Y^2+2Y-84=0
--> Y^2+Y-42=0
--> (Y-6)(Y+7)=0
--> Y= 6, -7
From there, I plugged those values of Y back into statement 2: x=y+1
Y=6 --> x=6+1=7
Y=-7 --> x=-7+1=-6
If you plug these values into x^2+Y^2=85, it works for both values of Y.
What did I do wrong?
Then take all I did for Statement 2 and plug in to figure out if it does equal 85 and you get a definitive yes, dont you?
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Statement (2) says:chipbmk wrote:Stuart, If I rephrase the above to: Does X^2+Y^2 = 85?
Then take all I did for Statement 2 and plug in to figure out if it does equal 85 and you get a definitive yes, dont you?
x = y + 1
If we substitute it in as you did, we get:
DOES (y+1)^2+Y^2=85?
--> DOES Y^2+2Y+1+Y^2=85?
--> DOES 2Y^2+2Y-84=0?
--> DOES Y^2+Y-42=0?
--> DOES (Y-6)(Y+7)=0?
--> DOES Y= 6 or -7?
Well, here's the problem - we have no clue what the value of y is, so there's no way to answer the question definitively.
Again, the mistake you made (and it's a very common mistake in DS) was to treat the question as though it were a statement of fact rather than just a question.
Let's illustrate with a much simpler example:
Q: Does x = y?
(1) y = 4
If we sub in y=4 to the original, we get:
x = 4
Now if we plug back in y=4, we get 4=4, which is true! That's a definite yes!
Whooooaaaa... of course it's true, since we assumed that x=y to find the value of x. However, if we think about the statement and the question, there's no way that knowing that y=4 is sufficient to know whether x=y, since we have absolutely no information about x at all. If we treat the original as a question instead, we simply end up with a new question:
Does x = 4?
and since we have no info at all about x, (1) is insufficient to answer that question.
Basically, if part of your scratchwork involves assuming that the original question is a statement of fact, you'll always end up proving that it's true.
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